On 10/10/2007, Paul Tansom paul@aptanet.com wrote:
I've generally found when dealing with agencies that they will not accept CVs in any format other than Word .doc (although probably the newer Word formats now - it has been a while!). They've usually used the excuse that they cannot read PDFs and even claimed not to have heard of Adobe or Acrobat/PDFs - although given the quality if staff I've dealt with at agencies in the past I can, actually, quite believe that!
I do try to keep my CV in PDF wherever possible because I don't want the recruitment agencies to start buggering about with my CV; and I have it in a nice format which is easy to read. In the past when I've been to job interviews and seen the copy of the CV that they have - it's in a format that I just don't recognise.
But to echo Adam Bower's statement on recruitment and successful employment - I too have yet to actually gain a place through them. In fact, I'm so sick to death of recruitment agencies I'm blacklisting entire domains to stop the feckers from emailing me about pointless jobs (the most recent was for a 3D modeller - I wouldn't know how to model something in Maya if my life depended on it - I can support Maya as an application, but not to produce 3D models!).
As it is I'm due to have an interview at Red Hat at some point, but it seems that the person responsible from the recruitment agency has vanished into thin air. I was supposed to have an interview at SourceFire too, but the recruitment agent got me so pissed off with the way the whole thing was handled - I didn't turn up. That's not fair on SourceFire of course, but at the same time it serves them right for dealing with an arse of a recruitment agency.
These days I'm trying for companies I *want* and would be *eager* to work for - and not some random crapfest that recruiters think you want to apply for.
Regards,
Martyn